The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1887-04-29
NO. 999.
OUR RICHEST WOMEN.

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A LOOK AT THE MONEY QUEENS
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Gossip About the Millionairesses of
- the United states-Rich Widows and
Wealthy Maidens-How Some Women
Manage Their Fortunes.
'aG @t} Especial Correspondence i.'rz
aga.} ,ss.e WASHINGTON, April 20.
The death of the rich Catherine Wolfe. calls
attention to the rich women of the United
States. This is an age not only of million
aires, but of millionairesses as we'll. The
wealthy women of the United States are now
numbered by hundreds, and every city has its
girls who are worth their weight in gold.
The richest woman of them all is, perhaps,
Mrs. Hetty Green, of New York, who is
worth $50 000, ,000, and has been estimated as
high as 40,000,000 She is n sharp business
woman. and has made the Sl3, 600. 600 which
she received from her father breed rapidly.
She added 100000 to her fortune by mar
riage, and she cuts her expenses more closely
than many woman who is worth a thousand
times less. Mrs. Mark Hopkins, who is build
ing So, ,000, 900 palace at Great Darlington,
Mass, is however, nearly as rich. She is
worth somewhere between 800, 100000 and
$40,000,00 but her money comes from her
husband, Mark Hopkins who made for
tune out of the Central Pacific rail
road. Hopkins estate when he died
was inventoried at S2l, zoe, 600, and it
was worth fully one-third more Nearly the
whole of this was left to Mrs Hopkins, and
she spends her large income generously. Mrs.
Terry got one third of her husbands fortune
of about $80000,0o0, and in case her baby
dies she will get the rest. This baby is girl
not yet2 years old. Sne is worth at least
$50000;000, and is said to be the wealthiest
baby in the world.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor, of New York, is
said to be worth ss, 600, and all her
relatives have gold galore. Mrs. Thomas a.
Scott, the widow of the railroad president,
is worth $5,OOO,O0O, and Mrs Joseph Harri-
son, the widow of the man who built the first
railroad i'll Russia, s4,OO0,0OO Mrs Jayne,
the widow of the patent medicine man, is
worth IS, 100000. Mrs. Josephine M. Aver,
who gets her money also from patent medi-
cine is estimated to be worth from 81 000, 900
to 5000, 900, and Mrs. Edwin Stevens, of
New York, has $15, ,0O0,000.
New York has number of other rich
widows. Mrs. Martin Bates was left 81, ,5O0,-
600, which her husband made in dry goods,
and Mrs. Jane Brown received from her
husbands estate about "a, GOO, 900, which was
accumulated in banking. Mrs. w. E.
Dodge, estimated at s4,OOO,0 600, sends much
of her income to the heatilen, and Mrs.
Robert Goelet, worth 81, ,O00, COO, owes her
fortune to hardware Mrs. John C. Green is
said to be worth SIC, ,00o, 600, and Mrs. Com
modore Vanderbilt has increased the $1,000,-
600 which she received from her husbands
estate until it is near $2000,000. Clarkson
Potter's widow has an immense income. Mrs
John Minturn is worth $4,000, 600. Mrs.
Marshall O.. Roberts, the eight millionaire
widow of mining king, is said to have cried
when it was charged that she was about to
marry President Arthur y
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Philadelphia widows are numerous, and
there are rich women of all kinds in the City
of Brotherly Love- have spoken of Mrs
Tom Scotts wealth. Mrs Disston, the widow
of the saw manufacturer who died not long
ago, is worth 81, 100000 and she lives in a
marble palace. Mrs. John Ray Barton
is worth s7,000,000; Mrs. NJ W. Baldwin,
the widow of the locomotive builder, is es-
timated as worth 81, ,00O, 900, and Mrs. Charles
Bromley. the widow of carpet manu-
facturer, is worth about 81 ,O00, 600
There is widow in Chicago, Mrs. Cyrus
H. Mccormick, who is said to be worth $1G,-
100000, and as to Washington's wealthy wild
ows, they are many. Mrs. Admiral Dahlgren {
has several fine houses in the fashionable part
of Washington, and Mrs. John O. Evans, the
widow Of the late president Of the Mutual
Union Telegraph company, owns much Wash
ington real estate. Mrs. Craig Waisworth, +
OF New York, has a fine residence Oh Massa-
ehusetts avenue and is said to be worth
81 ,000. 600. Mrs. Patten, the mother-in- law of
Congressman Glover, lives in house worth
$75, ,O0) and keeps, it is said, 81 000, COO in =
government bonds in the Washington banks. :
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As to rich young women there are numer-
Gus good catches in the United States Miss
Garrett, the sister of the president a
Of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, is said to
be worth between $l5, 900 ,0C0 and S20, ,OO0, ,OO0,
and she is both bright and business like. The
three daughters of Francis A. Drexel, of
are worth 81, ,000, 200, and there
is q millionaire girl in Tennessee named
Maud St. Pierre, who lately bought $4,000 i
acres of coal lands and who has enough
business ability to manage her own fortune
and a husband as we'll. One of the richest
young ladies in Washington is, Miss Jennie r
Riggs. whose father, George w. Riggs, was 2
partner of w. w. Corcoran, and there is a
Miss Bernice Morrison in st. Louis who sew
eral years ago was down on the tax lists as
being worth 1885,, 900 Miss Cothille Palms,
bhe Detroit beauty, whom Senator Jones in
vain tried to WOO, is said to be worth Sc 500
}O0 and she is as beautiful as she is rich, and
there is now hardly city in the United
States which has not an heiress or two whose
fortune runs high into the hundreds of thou
lands. Miss Benson, Of Philadelphia, in
1erited ST. ,500, 900 from her father. who was
/ well known Philadelphia banker, and Miss
Helen Erben, another Philadelphia girl, the
laughter Of wealthy faeter, IS alse
worth million. *** II #4
Miss Erben is fine horsewoman. She
irives spanking pair of bay horses, and
,ften tandem. The Drexei girls are also
ond of horses, and this is, in fact, their only
dissipation Each of these three four million
dresses has splendid Arabian steed which
soes like the wind. They ride out from their
country seat near Philadelphia as early as
o'clock in the morning, and they go galloping
lbout the country until their cheeks are like
'oses.s They are said to be as well posted ON |
lorses as veterinary surgeons, and they some
lines, it is said, rub down their horses them
elves after they come in from hard drive.
Mrs. Mark Hopkins is another great horse
woman. She is as fond of horses as was her |
husband, and her stables at Great harrington |
re among the completest and most comfort
Ible IN the country. She keeps wen bred
lorsss, and every fair day you may see her
bout Great Barringt ton driving behind o pair
f fine trotters and herself holding the rei,s.
'he makes long excursions around the sur
ounding country, and every inhabitant Of
be colony knows her. 8 isfas
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Mrs. Hopkins is noted for her charity.
here is church at Great Darlington. which
ogs her. all told. about $3.50. .00O and the
argest partof the preacher'ssalary imagine
ONES from her. She is not alone among her
sters in almsgiving. Mrs. n. K. Fairbanks, Il
ne OF the rich women of Chicago, gives
way $4,000 year in charity, and Mrs.
[arshan Field, the wife of the rich dry goods
ian, Is said to keep an almoner whose busi-
ass it is to make the rounds of Che ciss
arcIiing for tile worthy poor. She is fond
educating poor children, and pays IS 900 a /
ear out Of hsr individual allowance for this
one. The three Drexel sisters, of whomI
ave spoken, are also systematic in their
larity They keep a female executive to-